America

• 23 January 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - New Evangelization and Continental Mission: meeting of missionary organizations Mexico D.F. (Agenzia Fides) - The Episcopal Commission for Pastoral Missionary Action and the Interecclesial Cooperation, together with the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS), are attending the Meeting of the Latin Ameri ...
• 22 January 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - 40 deaths in 15 days, blackmails and threats also to priests and members of the Church Netzahualcoyotl (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the diocese of Netzahualcoyotl, His Exc. Msg. Luis Hector Morales Sánchez, who alleged that the priests who work in the eastern part of the State of Mexico have been threa ...
• 22 January 2013
  AMERICA/EL SALVADOR - The Vatican - observer of the Central American Integration System (SICA) San Salvador (Agenzia Fides) - The Vatican has become the ninth extra-regional observer of the Central American Integration System (SICA). The official ceremony was held in San Salvador, at the SICA headquarters, yesterd ...
• 22 January 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Basic necessities for half of the families in Durango are lacking Durango (Agenzia Fides) - Five families out of 10 in Durango, in northern Mexico, live in food poverty. Of the 203,000 families who do not have sufficient means to purchase basic necessities, partly because of the severe ...
• 21 January 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Christmas truce has ended, the Church asks to stop the violence and continue the dialogue Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - Yesterday, Sunday, January 20, the ceasefire declared at Christmas 2012 between the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) and the government of Juan Manuel Santos came to an end. The Secr ...
• 21 January 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The lives of children are at risk: landmines in 31 departments out of 32 Bogota (Agenzia Fides) - In 2012, 13 children died in Colombia and 52 others were injured as a result of landmines. According to a document of the Presidential Program for Integral Action against Landmines, in 2012 12 bo ...
• 21 January 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - On line "Radio Veritas", a Catholic station for the Chiapas area San Cristobal de las Casas (Agenzia Fides) - Radio Veritas, a Catholic radio station in San Cristobal de las Casas, in the Mexican state of Chiapas, was able to obtain legal authorization of the Federal Commission of Tel ...
• 18 January 2013
  AMERICA/BOLIVIA - The first indigenous Bishop consecrated in Santa Cruz: a man born, raised and formed in this land Santa Cruz (Agenzia Fides) - The Cathedral was filled with the faithful for the celebration of the Eucharist in which Cardinal Julio Terrazas, Archbishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, ordained Auxiliary Bishop of the Archd ...
• 18 January 2013
  AMERICA/CHILE - "A Problem that affects everyone": meeting of the Justice and Peace Commission for the Mapuche conflict Santiago (Agenzia Fides) - As part of a series of initiatives of the Catholic Church before the new crisis that the region of Araucanía is experiencing, the Commission "Justice and Peace" of the Episcopal Conference of ...
• 18 January 2013
  AMERICA/DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - In the Year of Faith "We urge people to appreciate, and respect our women": Bishops' Pastoral Letter for the Feast of Our Lady of Altagracia Santo Domingo (Agenzia Fides) - On 21 January, the Dominican Republic celebrates the Feast of Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia. In the particular context of this month dedicated to Our Lady and the Year of Faith, the Cat ...
• 17 January 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - More violence in Colombia: a priest murdered Buga (Agenzia Fides) - The diocesan priest Don José Francisco Velez Echeverri, 55, was found dead yesterday, January 16, with stab wounds in the courtyard of his house in the neighborhood El Albergue, in the south of Bu ...
• 17 January 2013
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - The Bishop of Buenaventura: "Solving the problem of violence with social investment" Buenaventura (Agenzia Fides) - The Bishop of the Colombian Diocese of Buenaventura, His Exc. Mgr. Héctor Epalza Quintero P.S.S., called on the authorities to solve the problem of violence afflicting the country by not u ...
• 16 January 2013
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - "Do not kill": the Apostolic Administrator of Izabal invites the community not to take the law into their hands Puerto Barrios (Agenzia Fides) – His Exc. Mgr. Mario Enrique Rios Mont, CM, Apostolic Administrator of the Apostolic Vicariate of Izabal in Guatemala, has strongly condemned the behavior of the community of Puerto Barr ...
• 16 January 2013
  AMERICA/HAITI - 3 years after the earthquake, the Redemptorist reorganize Popular Missions Port-Au-Prince (Agenzia Fides) - Fr. Jeffrey Rolle and Fr. João Pedro Fernandes, General Consultors of the Redemptorists, visited Haiti 3 years after the earthquake that destroyed much of the island and structures. The ...
• 15 January 2013
  AMERICA/MEXICO - Three million working children live in extreme situations of slavery Mexico City (Agenzia Fides) - In Mexico, about three million children are exploited in the worst forms of child labor, andwe are talking about all of them, but only the "worst." They live extreme situations of slavery an ...